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The one-way traffic scheme
The one-way traffic scheme on Peradeniya Road
and Gopallawa Mawatha. >>

One Way Traffic Scheme on Hold
Court asked for restraining order

The KMC decided to postpone the reintroduction of the one-way traffic scheme on Peradeniya Road and Gopallawa Mawatha from June 01, 2007 following a private citizen asking the court to issue a restraining order to the Council. Former MMC Mr. Ranjith Wijesinghe has filed the request. The order has not been issued at the time of this writing. However, the KMC decided that it would be prudent to wait for the court decision expected to be delivered on June 12th. Read More>>
KMC Asks Water Consumers to Read Own Meters

KMC that is facing a shortage of water meter readers is to ask the consumers to read their own meters and report. The Council recently decided to try the idea on an experimental basis with fifty subscribers. If the results are satisfactory it will be expanded.

KMC is the only local authority in Sri Lanka that has its own water scheme. Elsewhere the National Water Supply and Drainage Board supplies water. Read More>>
MMC Demands Allowance to Attend Committee Meetings

MMC Lalalntha S Peiris has requested the KMC to pay MMCs an allowance for attending various committee meetings of the council. He says that many councilors have to sacrifice time that otherwise would be devoted to doing their regular jobs or occupations that earn them a living. He notes that the regular monthly pay that they get as councilors is totally inadequate to cover such financial losses. But it is also essential that members attend committee meetings if the council work is to proceed smoothly, he points out.

Mayor Saves the Shade Tree

The Doctors and staff of the Peradeniya Bandaranaike Children's Hospital were relieved when Mayor L B Aluvihare revoked a decision that the KMC had taken to cut down the large Mara tree that gave shade to the hospital. The doctors had first contacted the Municipal Commissioner. But he had refused to change the decision. When the doctors then appealed to Mr. Aluvihare who was on his way to the airport to go abroad he had given the order to stop the felling of the tree. The Commissioner was reluctant to tell The Kandy News the reason for the decision to cut the tree.
 
Kandy Alliance Holds AGM
Editorial

Graduate Unemployment

About 20,000 unemployed graduates are demanding jobs from the government. These are mostly individuals with degrees in the humanities and social sciences and some with a degree in natural or physical sciences. In Kandy and some other towns unemployed graduates recently conducted a sathyagraha to draw attention to their plight.

For the last three decades the graduate unemployment problem has been “solved” by government that absorbs these young men and women into government service. In 2004 about 42,000 graduates were taken as teachers and office workers. Now 20,000 more are demanding government jobs. Unfortunately this is not a sustainable solution to the problem.

A senior minister recently reported that about 15,000 of those that were taken in 2004 were still idling. This is not surprising. The government is grossly over-staffed.

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